Tintin and Haddock move through the crowded, alien streets of Bagghar, haunted by the ghosts of the marketplace-chase of Raiders of the Lost Ark, then haunted by Thomson and Thompson, who have come, disguised as Arabs, to deliver Tintin’s wallet to him, giving him the scroll he needs to even the odds between him and Sakharine.

He tries to drink it just as the plane lurches downwards, resulting in the liquid floating out of the bottle in zero-gravity, which Haddock proceeds to slurp up. See more. It's still possibly the best looking film I've ever seen. It’s understandable that Haddock doesn’t want to face these men himself, but his description of the men, in any kind of realistic sense, is horrifying, and the last place one would want to send a 15-year-old boy. The mystery laid out in Tintin is clever but spare. März 1904 an Gehirnschlag und hinterließ zehn Söhne und sieben Töchter: Webseiten von Christopher Buyers zur Geschichte von Laos, https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sakkalin&oldid=186305785, „Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike“, Zakkarinth; Sakkarin; Sakharine; Sackarine; Zackarine; Zacharine; Kham Suk; Somdet Brhat Chao Maha Sri Vitha Lan Chang Hom Khao Luang Phrabang Parama Sidha Khattiya Suriya Varman Brhat Maha Sri Sakarindra Ridhi Dharma Varman. "I brought dinner, lad," said Haddock, then his eyes widened when he saw Tintin suddenly clutching his head, as if in pain. It’s worth noting that Haddock’s regained memory of the sinking of the Unicorn echoes Quint’s recitation of the sinking of the Indianapolis in Jaws, a similarity Spielberg points to when he brings sharks in to devour Sir Francis’s men.
Cue a trail of cows raising their heads and mooing. Again, not just adventure is the key, but stories of adventure.

In the end, Haddock beats Sakharine, not with the sword or the crane, but with alcohol — throwing bottles of it at him on the deck of the Karaboudjan until Sakharine falls overboard and is hauled out by Thomson and Thompson, who, for once, perform actual police work. The cow responds by raising its head and mooing loudly in shock. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. He also has circular reading glasses perched on his nose. Jamie shouted. http://socyberty.com/history/tintin-on-the-couch-to-tell-herg/. A boy adventurer knows nothing of loss, but Haddock — the older Tintin, lost in his alcoholic cloud — does. DC FUTURE STATE: The 10 Things We’re Most Excited About in... Ahmed and Jung’s MAGNIFICENT MS. MARVEL run ends in January. Sakharine has one scroll (from his own Unicorn model), Tintin has lost his (to the pickpocket), Sakharine now needs Tintin (his younger self) to find a third scroll. Tintin's, So Tintin and Captain Haddock are in a plane that's being thrown about in a storm, and Haddock, terrified and desperate for an alcohol fix, spots a bottle of medicinal alcohol. Maybe that’s why Tintin exists in such a vague space of time and place — like a lot of young men, he exists in a world of his own mind, one without political realities or, for that matter, women and their complications. Or, contrast Tintin with someone closer to home, Indiana Jones. The Tintin stories have always juggled types, slotting them in comfortably next to one another, allowing the reader to enjoy the style without worrying about motivations, which makes Tintin a kind of busman’s holiday for Spielberg, a chance to take well-worn characters and put them into an exercise of style. It is not enough, in an adventure story, that the plot keep moving, the protagonist must also keep moving.

Where are we now, in the structure of The Adventures of Tintin? “Epidemic” vs. “Pandemic” vs. “Endemic”: What Do These Terms Mean? His logic is undeniable. It was picture of Chloe, himself and Snowy in America, when they first met a couple of years ago.

If this had been shot in live action it would be, hands down, the most astoundingly complicated sequence in history — stemming from story, rooted in character and geography and location, full of wit and dazzling physical comedy, dotted with dozens of trade-offs and constantly-changing stakes, irreversibly altering the narrative as it progresses to its end, and containing what is probably the most amazing single tracking shot in Spielberg’s career (which is saying a lot), and impossible to create without computer-generated 3D animation, it alone justifies the movie’s existence and should be studied by film students as an example of what an “action beat” should accomplish. He claims to be not a thief but a kleptomaniac; he’s close but not quite there — what he is is a collector. In the original book there are VERY subtle clues that Sir Francis (“François de Hadoque” in the original) could be the king’s own bastard son (in case, king Louis XIV, but Charles II was also well-known for his extramarital affairs), this being a veiled reference to Hergé’s doubts about his own family’s origins, his identical twin father and uncle (inspirations for the Thompsons) being themselves possible bastard sons of Belgium’s own king Leopold II (yet ANOTHER king known for his extramarital affairs!). Tintin rejects all of the offers made by the two to buy the model from him. After noticing another model of the Unicorn at a market, he and another man named Barnaby attempt to purchase it only to find that it has already been sold to Tintin.

Love has found Tintin, but part of love is, lest we forget, to be stolen away.

Tintin is placed in a cage in the ship’s hold and interrogated by Sakharine, who apparently has hired this vessel.

Snowy helps with the Rottweiler; he is, in many ways, Tintin’s avatar, brave and innocent and eager, and those qualities generally serve to get him into and out of trouble. It’s meant for children to follow, and exists only to pulls Tintin through the story. They've been wet, they've been in the mouths of several animals, The mook Tintin knocks out is the same one he and the Captain took down just a few minutes prior. There is mention of the doomed Haddock clan and Sakharine generally acting threatening. When he quoted Jaws in 1941 it was self-reference, but to quote Jaws in Tintincomments not on Jaws but on Jaws‘s place in the world marketplace of ideas.

Sherlock Holmes was based on a real guy, James Bond sprung from a specific geo-political climate, Indiana Jones battles people in a more-or-less historical context, but Tintin is pure fantasy, has always been pure fantasy, and was created as part of a continuum of pure fantasy. This being Tintin, he turns the tables on them without a struggle and hijacks their plane. To Rackham, the king’s ownership of this property is theft, but in the Spielberg mindset, Sir Francis is merely a “good son” to Charles II, making it doubly ironic that Sir Francis’s descendant is the man without a family and it’s the descendant of Rackham who’s looking to regain his family’s heritage.”. (Part of Herge’s winning style was to take cartoonish-looking principals and put them in lush, well-researched, impeccably observed backgrounds, and Spielberg replicates that technique here in CGI — rubber-faced people in photo-realistic environments.).

Note as well that the “wall of death” sequence is rooted in character (“We can’t go back” and “I can’t stop drinking”) and, as in any true action sequence, it changes the direction of the story while it’s happening. The entrance into Bagghar is only the beginning of that third chapter of Act II. All hell breaks loose: Sakharine’s falcon (he’s got a falcon) snatches the last scroll from the Unicorn model, people scream and run, Haddock confesses to Tintin that he’s lost his scroll, and Tintin’s faith in Haddock, like all the glass in the sultan’s palace, is shattered. Spielberg may wish to retreat into the nostalgia Tintin evokes, but it’s Haddock that he gets to sink his narrative teeth into. Tintin has lost the scrolls and his story, which means, to him, his identity — heis his story.

What’s happening to Tintin is that he is getting hooked, entering a mystery, entering an adventure. The book Tintin reads about the Unicorn glows like one of Indiana Jones’s temple idols. Rackham was the leader of the pirates who attacked The Unicorn, the ship captained by Sir Francis Haddock, an ancestor of Captain Haddock's.
Contrast Tintin with, say, James Bond.

März 1904 ebendort) war zwischen 1895 und 1904 König des Reiches Luang Phrabang. Maybe that’s why one of the first shots of Tintin is him passing by a row of mirrors — Tintin is Spielberg’s reflection of himself. Top Sidebar Boombox: 300 px wide x 250 px high, Large Sidebar Boombox: 300 px wide x 600 px high, All ads should be either jpgs or animated gifs. Captain Haddock lighting a fire in a boat he and Tintin are stranded in. All the principals of Tintin are introduced in distorted ways: Tintin is first seen through his Herge portrait, Thomson and Thompson through the framework of a newspaper, Haddock through an empty bottle, now Bianca Castafiore through a camera, all to remind us that Spielberg is seeing Herge through a lens as well, and that Herge was seeing boys-adventure stories through his own lens. Yes, for a boy’s adventure comic, Tintin is incredibly layered. I’m guessing Tintin shares that quality with Spielberg himself, who has always been skittish about love matters in his movies — Tintin, throughout his history, is permanently arrested in a pre-sexual adolescence –the perfect Spielberg protagonist.